Chapter 8 of Gulliver’s Travels. Fun stuff: I'll be teaching at Spin U! Come and have fun with me! The back pain book is

and the running book is

The apps are Lose It, Map My Walk, and the Atlantic Monthly article is The Perfected Self.

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Defarge 2—What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit?—this time in color!—is in pre-orders!

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Ehren, I think you’ll agree, rocks the Gulliver text.

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Chapter 7 of Gulliver’s Travels.  

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Ehren, I think you’ll agree, rocks the Gulliver text.

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Chapters 5–6 of Gulliver's Travels.

Join the conversation by tweeting a response to this question by using a hashtag (#GulliverGuffaws): Twittering Question: What was Swift after when he went after smart folks? (When he's a smarty-pants himself!)
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Christopher Moore's books! And OH MY GOODNESS--a chapter-by-chapter guideto the art and locations for Sacré Bleu!

And... two, ahem, views of Gulliver:

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Chapters 3–4 of Gullvier's Travels. Join the conversation by tweeting a response to this question by using a hashtag (#GulliverGuffaws): Twittering Question: Who do you consider the best modern-day satirist?
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Fun stuff: Dr Brunner's useful posts on 10 character flaws that can derail even good people and prepare your child for trauma, Judge John Hodgeman and Alton Brown (what could be better?!) and the book I mentioned at SeedPod Publishing, After the Strawberry.

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Cheddar, the CraftLit Critter! Purchase a completed, knitted Cheddar from Penny for $36 via Little Acorn Creations!

 and now Wensleydale, Cheddar's Lilliputian friend

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Defarge 2—What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit?—this time in color!—is in pre-orders!

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Ehren, I think you'll agree, rocks the Gulliver text. 

Chapter2 of Gullvier's Travels.

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Twittering Question: What do you think Swift will attack first next week when the satire really kicks in? Discuss.
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Fun stuf: Philip II with his jaw.

Father-in-Law Abe's gorgeous app, CowBird.com (no, really), and a Good Story is Hard to Find where we discuss The Wrath of Khan(and Montalban's chest... seriously).

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Cheddar, the CraftLit Critter! (a pattern)

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And April/May 2012 incentive? Your veddy own Defarge PAC (Don’t Lose Your Head!) t-shirt. Donate or subscribe to be put into the running for a shirt!

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Defarge 2—What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit? —this time in color!—is in pre-orders!

And, more happiness—the husband gets more good press for his book, too! Yay books! Yay literate people!

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Ehren, I think you'll agree, rocks the Gulliver text.

BONUS EPISODE! "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz" by F. Scott Fitzgerald—part 2.

Join the conversation by tweeting a response to this question by using a hashtag (#FaveFitzgerald): Question: What is your favorite bit from the second half of "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz"? I will randomly select a name from this episode's responders and whoever I choose will get their very own WWMDfK? bracelet.

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Defarge 2—What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit?—this time in color!—is in pre-orders! 25+ patterns of yarny goodness (sweaters, mittens, a devilishly cute layette, and more all await you!). The good people at Cooperative Press have found a local printer who can bring you our new book still printed in the USA! Mwah!

Have I told you how much I love indie publishers?

And speaking of Cooperative Press! Two new goodies for any knitters/crocheters you may know! First, the CP Sock & Mitt Club. Second, the CP Mag! Both of which yours truly will be working on! Yay! What is CP saying about the Magazine?

Let me share what CP said:

Our intentions are as follows:

And, more happiness—the husband gets more good press for his book, too! Yay books! Yay literate people!

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And my new pattern (that I'm so proud of!): Hunger Games-inspired Life and Death socks—designed for those of us who tend to give their socks a beating. (more details on knitting blog)

Let me know what you thought of the movie by tweeting a response using this hashtag (#HungerGamesMovie): Question: What did you think of the Hunger Games movie"? (Thank you @ReneeRico, for the idea—and ditto on selecting a name for a bracelet!)

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Audible's Moveable Feast with the excellent reader, Zora Neale Hurston's lovely Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Soon Ehren and I'll have Gulliver ready for you. I'm racking up moments of the usual start-of-book zeitgeist. (Have you seen the advertisement yet? Thank you, Jill!)

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BONUS EPISODE! "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz" by F. Scott Fitzgerald—part 1.

Join the conversation by tweeting a response to this question by using a hashtag (#FaveFitzgerald): Question: What is your favorite bit from the first half of "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz"? I will randomly select a name from the responders and whoever I choose will get their very own WWMDfK? bracelet (iffin you want one)!

Have an idea for a knitting pattern based on a Hitchcock flick? Send yourself over to Stephannie Tallent's blog and get the skinny on how to submit your ideas!

And my new pattern (that I'm so proud of I'm even sharing it here!): Hunger Games-inspired Life and Death socks—designed for those of us who tend to give their socks a beating. (more details on knitting blog)

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From Juti: Louis S. Warren, "Buffalo Bill Meets Dracula: William F. Cody, Bram Stoker, and the Frontiers of Racial Decay," The American Historical Review vol. 107 no. 4 (October 2002), pp 1124-1157.

Flicks the Church Forgot (Vampire flicks part 1, part 2, part 3)

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Psychopathy

(go get your free book and start your trial by clicking above) Again, many thanks to Jon Scholes at Vaguenet, and Ehren Ziegler at Chop Bard, Maurice Mengel, and Elizabeth Klett for our audio this week!

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HENRY Irving--not John Irving (caught it too late!)

The book on decision making:

Mina's typewriter (perhaps)

Once again we need our map:

this comes to us via Syrie James @Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Syrie James’ novel Dracula, My Love.

Misty won Caramel! Heather(!) won one of Mighty Distractible's embroidery kits! From this month's incentive drawing!

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(Scroll to the bottom of the page for a player or grab the show on iTunes or via this feed). The Husband wrote an awesome post on being an outsider. Now you know (another reason) why I love the guy. Degenerate art, a catalog of the show I saw.

Here's the SFF #094 episode Julie was on chatting about Gulliver (spoilers).

Once again we need our map:

this comes to us via Syrie James @Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins;

Syrie James’ novel Dracula, My Love.

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The store is now open!

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Again, many thanks to Jon Scholes at Vaguenet, and Ehren Ziegler at Chop Bard, and Jon's friend Charlie Allen Wall for our audio this week! Just the Books is now paralleling CraftLit in real time—for Dracula. We'll be uploading the books between Pride and Prejudice and The Woman in White as time and storage space allow. AND the CraftLit Family page is up and growing! Add what you're up to there and share your "betterness".

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